Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot